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Getting Started in Blues
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The Hard Way
by James Hunter
With his fourth solo album, British soul singer/writer/guitarist James Hunter finally seems to have...
Wound Up Tight
by Lonnie Brooks
Forget the tired old debate about whether or not Johnny Winter is a bluesman or a rocker, because i...
Rarities From The Bob Hite Vaults
by Various
Bob “The Bear” Hite is said to have begun collecting 78s as a mere cub, long before founding hippie...
Discover Blues
Blues Basics
This one’s for all you folks who are starting to explore the blues. The idea is to show the considerable diversity in a truly great genre of music that's too often dismissed with a curt, “It all sounds the same.” Here are twelve gems in twelve different blues genres, and the truth is, there’s plenty more categories than that — like big-band blues or swamp blues, for example — so this doesn’t even cover all the bases, but it's a start. If you already know the difference between B.B., Albert and Freddie Kin...
Spotlight on Blues
New Blues Rising: The Black Keys
The Black Keys are easily the freshest thing to happen to blues in this millennium, but you can't really call them a blues band. But then, neither can you call the duo — drummer Patrick Carney and guitarist/vocalist David Auerbach — a rock band. Or even a blues-rock band in the conventional sense of the term. Their music is garage rock that knows that blues is at the very heart of rock, and it is blues that cannot help but get caught up in the power, energy and flash of rock. (In this sense, the band they...
Top Blues Tracks
| Listen | Track Name | Length | Download |
|---|
| 1. | |
Scratch My Back
|
4:20 | |
| 2. | |
Hello Josephine
|
4:48 | |
| 3. | |
Slow Drag
|
6:33 | |
| 4. | |
Further On Down The Road
|
4:47 | |
| 5. | |
Diddy Wah Diddy
|
4:36 | |
| 6. | |
Never Let You Go
|
4:43 | |
| 7. | |
Strong Man Holler
|
5:49 | |
| 8. | |
Zanzibar
|
5:52 | |
| 9. | |
TV Mama
|
3:43 | |
| 10. | |
Dust Me Down
|
3:28 |



















